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Grant Beach Neighborhood Twice Annual Neighborhood Clean-Ups

For well over 10 years Grant Beach Neighborhood Association (GBNA) has been sponsoring two neighborhood clean-ups per year, one in the spring and one in the fall.

The purpose of this project is to offer residents the opportunity to get rid of their unwanted household items, appliances , building materials, yard waste and tires, which they may not be financially able to do otherwise. For the past several years we have held the clean-ups on the Central Assembly parking lot located on Boonville between Lynn and Calhoun.

This event has grown over the years and we are proud to say that the number of volunteers has grown as well. As many as 50 people help throughout the clean-up, loading dumpsters, providing curbside pick-ups, assisting with surveys, taking phone calls, and traffic control. Without them, this opportunity would not exist.

Funding for these clean-ups has come from a variety of sources. In the beginning they were sponsored by Caring Communities mini grants and donations from people using the service. Given the success of this project, not only in Grant Beach but in other neighborhoods as well, the City of Springfield has provided funding for the past several years. Due to City budget cuts this line item had to be deleted from the city budget, so at this time GBNA is using Neighborhood Beautification (Railroad) money to finance the clean-ups. Hopefully, as City funding becomes more stable this line item will be reinstated. Information about the upcoming spring clean-up is posted below.

At each clean-up we usually fill AT LEAST ten (10) forty yard dumpsters with unwanted household items, etc, at least one (1) dumpster of yard waste and recycle three (3) trailer loads of metal.

Spring 2010 Clean-up Details:

We will be accepting unwanted household items, appliances, ($3.00 charge for air conditioners, refrigerators and freezers), building materials, batteries, scrap metal and tires. We are unable to accept TVs, computer monitors, and hazardous waste.

We will also be accepting yard waste but NOT leaves.

Leaves may be disposed of at the yard waste recycling center on N. Franklin.

Lunch will be provided for the volunteers at 11:30 am. If you would like to help with this, please bring a dish (or two) as we will be feeding up to 50 volunteers, many of them teenagers.

If you have any questions, would like to volunteer to help or need curbside pick-up, please call Pauletta Dunn at 831-2895.

NOTE: Due to the price of gasoline, we urge residents requesting curbside pick-up to make a donation to offset the cost of our volunteers' gas expenses.

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Clean-Up Photographs From Previous Years:

I don't have photos of all the clean-ups but below you will find a few from previous years.